bearister said:bearlyamazing said:
...The ridiculous blood on his hands hyperbole so many post on here is beyond rational discussion....
"The researchers compared the coronavirus response of the U.S. to that of six other countries South Korea, Japan, Australia, Germany, Canada, and France and found that the American government's response to the pandemic rated unfavorably against them all.
The U.S. has suffered a COVID-19 fatality rate more than double that of Canada and 50 times that of Japan. Extrapolating from the deaths per 100,000 people in each country, the researchers estimated how the U.S. might have fared had it followed the example of a more robust response. The answer: always better than it did in reality.
"If the U.S. had followed Canadian policies and protocols, there might have only been 85,192 U.S. deathsmaking more than 132,500 American deaths 'avoidable.'
If the U.S. response had mirrored that of Germany, the U.S. may have only had 38,457 deathsleaving 179,260 avoidable deaths," the researchers wrote......
We should model ourselves on the best. We should be the best," Redlener said. "We have the resources, the economy, the scientific expertise to do this the right way. We're facing a lethal pandemic, and we had very misguided leadership that chose to berate the purveyors of masks and social distancing. The president himself became a superspreader. He has blood on his hands....
Researchers cite several well-known but catastrophic factors that plagued the U.S. response: insufficient testing, delayed lockdowns, a lack of a unified federal response, and a failure to mandate non-medical interventions like masks and social distancing.
American leaders, the researchers wrote, have shown a "failure to model best practices," especially wearing masks during public appearances."
Report: "130,000 210,000 AVOIDABLE COVID-19 DEATHS AND COUNTING IN THE U.S."
By Irwin Redlener, MD; Jeffrey D. Sachs, PhD; Sean Hansen, MPA; Nathaniel Hupert, MD, MPH, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia University
*You RWNJ's on BI are even bigger high strung p@ussies than the pit bull, AR-15 and knife crowd on Reddit
Jeffrey Sachs, one of the authors of this study, is personally more responsible for covid deaths than Trump. "Shock Doctrine" Sachs has been Gov. Cuomo's chief health policy advisor. His "shock therapy" policies have been recently implemented by Cuomo, and the number of hospital and ICU beds in NY was slashed per Sachs' recommendations, one of the main reasons NY had the worst covid crisis in the planet...
He's also wrong about France, Macron's government handling of the crisis is far worse than Trump's, Trudeau's no better. Western Canada did well because they've managed their retirement home situation quite well early on, but places like Quebec were a complete disaster, on par with NY/NJ.
Jeffrey Sachs is pure neoliberal scum and a freaking hypocrite, whose work has left a long trail of economic devastation from Latin America to Eastern Europe to Africa. I'm not sure if there is another American academic that is personally responsible for more deaths and misery than Jeffrey Sachs, other than John Yoo, maybe.
